Clouds part for Blood Moon

The high clouds left the night sky just in time to wow late night moon gazers Monday night as Willits got a front row seat at viewing the total lunar eclipse and the resulting Blood Moon. The Blood Moon is revealed when the moon falls completely within the earth's shadow. The April 14 total lunar eclipse was the first of a tetrad of total eclipses astronomers will be monitoring in the coming months. The next eclipse will be on Oct. 8, 2014, then April 4, 2015 and the last of the tetrad will occur on Sept. 28, 2015. The next series of four closely grouped total lunar eclipses will not happen again until 2032. The last tetrad took place in 2003 and 2004 but historically there have been gaps of up to 500 years between them.

All four of the current tetrad will be visible for much of the United States.